The Royal Malaysian Customs Department Kedah foiled a fake liquor bottling operation using fake Customs duty stamps, following a raid carried out at a premise in Taman Dahlia, Kuala Lumpur on Aug 7.

Its director Johari Alifiah said acting on information, a team of Customs Department personnel from the Alor Setar branch carried out the raid and found 32,904 pieces of fake ‘Customs duty paid' stamps and 800 pieces of fake ‘duty not paid’ stamps.

“We also seized equipment used in activities such as bottling and sticking labels of the various liquor brands,” he said at a press conference in Alor Setar today.

“A 36-year-old man at the premise was arrested,” he said, adding that the raid was related to the one carried out at a fake liquor processing lab at the Semenyih Hi-Tech Industrial Area in Selangor on March 12.

- Bernama